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The Pedagogy Of Oppression: A Brief Look At The ‘No Child Left Behind’ (Chinese Translation), Ramin Farahmandpur, Peter Mclaren
The Pedagogy Of Oppression: A Brief Look At The ‘No Child Left Behind’ (Chinese Translation), Ramin Farahmandpur, Peter Mclaren
Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations
NOTICE: This article is in Chinese
The driving forces behind the recent educational policies of the No Child Left Behind Act passed in 2001 are neoliberal social and economic policies that favour outsourcing and downsizing methods of production in the name of flexibility and efficiency. Under the neoliberal economic model, schools must perform similarly to corporate entities. Just as the Dow Jones stock indices measure the performance of companies and represent the pulse of Wall Street, so too the Adequate Yearly Progress Report (AYP) measures and ranks the performance of public schools. One of the most pernicious results of the …